
The outage came amid mounting difficulties for the company.Īt a Senate hearing on Sept. Facebook's own site would not load at all Instagram and WhatsApp were accessible, but could not load new content or send messages.
Outage tracking site Down Detector logged tens of thousands of reports for each of the services. PHILADELPHIA - Around six hours after Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down, service started coming back online, though coverage was still spotty.įacebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all suffered outages midday Monday, according to public statements from the three Facebook services.
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